Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent. — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Time could truly be made to stand still. Texture could be retained despite sudden violent movement. — Gjon Mili Copy Share Image
I don't think that movies are too violent. But I do think that popcorn is too expensive, and this can often lead… — Lev L. Spiro Copy Share Image
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been… — Myriam Gurba Copy Share Image
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose. — Michelle Ryan Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big… — Alan Sillitoe Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. It… — Jean Kilbourne Copy Share Image
These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America -… — Frank Gaffney Copy Share Image
The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust... — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Both Russia and the United States have had their homelands attacked by violent extremists. — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think that art is an act of violence, and the more emotionally engaged you are in a piece of art, the… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first. — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“The love that we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the most pure, the most heady.” — Serge Gainsbourg Copy Share Image
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent. — Eli Roth Copy Share Image
“I meet pound for pound him with each violent thrust, causing as much damage as he is me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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